I'm a hardcore liberal, but your ideas on community gardens give me the creeps. I can just imagine the petty power wielding that would go on under your scheme. Gardening, community or otherwise, is not about following marching orders. I can imagine the mantra of your community garden: "bis aufweitern Bescheid".

by Guest Ranter Ed Bruske Converging trends are pushing gardening and food production ever closer together. Global warming, depleting fossil fuels, threats of disease: All create a growing sense that our food needs to be grown more sustainably and closer to where it will be consumed. You'd ...